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Hashem El Tarif

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Hashem El Tarif

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Hashem El Tarif is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula, now in northeastern Egypt. It is one of several candidates for the biblical Mount Sinai, where the Abrahamic prophet Moses received the Ten Commandments. It stands 881 meters tall.

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